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EX MACHINA

Posted on April 16, 2015 by Jenna Busch


Written by: Jenna Busch

The new film Ex Machina premiered this week and it is asking some serious questions about artificial intelligence (AI). It is not a new debate. 2013’s Her did a wonderful job of exploring what love is, attachment to a mind that is far more advanced, and what it means to…

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SCIENCE OF LOVE

Posted on April 3, 2014 by admin


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Matters of the heart and the laws of science are odd bedfellows, but at the Science & Entertainment Exchange’s recent event, The Science of Love, Chris McKinlay shared his experiences finding love on the internet. But this is no average tale! Chris, who recently finished his PhD in Mathematics at…

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Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

Posted on April 1, 2014 by admin


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“Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match, find me a find, catch me a catch…” We like to consider ourselves some of the best matchmakers in the science and entertainment game. Finding scientists to explore some of the most remote and often obscure corners of their field to enrich Hollywood plotlines…

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It’s Not Science Fiction, It’s Science IN Fiction

Posted on November 21, 2013 by admin


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Attention kids, any aspiring filmmakers out there?  If you think you’re the next Steven Spielberg or James Cameron, why not show off your talents for the world to see at the next Science and Engineering Festival, which is taking place April 26-27 in Washington D.C .?  The Festival is sponsoring…

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Under The Microscope: Covert Affairs

Posted on April 2, 2012 by admin


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Kevin Crowley admits it is a struggle to express things in layman’s terms due to primarily working in scientific environments where shorthand technical terms are the norm, but he was more than happy to help the writers of USA Network’s Covert Affairs. Covert Affairs is a one-hour spy drama television…

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Under the Microscope: Terra Nova

Posted on March 16, 2012 by admin


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Sometimes science isn’t the solution. That’s the reality of science consulting and something Kevin Grazier, Planetary Scientist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory and one of The Exchange’s consultants, knows well. “Until a story starts shooting, and often times even after, the script is a living document,” he explained. “Over time, different…

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Under the Microscope: Green Lantern

Posted on November 21, 2011 by admin


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Whether it is a man dressing up as a bat to fight crime (Batman Begins), three mutants running a police department (Minority Report), or a man chosen to protect the universe using a ring (Green Lantern), the basic premises of most superhero and science-fiction movies can seem, well, silly. That…

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Under the Microscope: Apollo 18

Posted on September 14, 2011 by admin


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Whether it is a fictional (but plausible) link between a disease and a symptom, downloading a human into a computer, or wormholes between universes, The Exchange’s consultants certainly have fun extrapolating science for fiction’s sake. But often our consultants are on hand to provide authentic scientific details to a television…

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Under the Microscope: Fringe

Posted on July 20, 2011 by admin


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How much science can you fit into an hour-long television show? When you talk to Glen Whitman and Rob Chiappetta, executive story editors on the hit Fox series Fringe, it almost seems like the answer is “an unlimited amount.” Science seems to be crammed into every nook and cranny of…

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Under the Microscope: Tron: Legacy

Posted on June 10, 2011 by admin


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I don’t know about any of you, but I was extremely excited about the release of TRON: Legacy. Partly because the light cycles are cool, but also for a personal reason: this was the first movie I helped consult on as part of the early days of the Science and…

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